Hi I'm Deborah.

I first began to practice yoga around 2003/4 and I faced many physical & mental challenges. I believed yoga was not for me as I was not very flexible and yes, I actually believed that yoga was only for the bendy & I also discovered that I was very impatient.

The whole idea of just sitting there & breathing & not moving was alien to me.

Surely you have to keep moving? Stillness? Really?

But.. I was so drawn to the whole practice. I would be uplifted, relaxed yet energised & I always felt sooo good after I had moved & opened my body, breathed better & released tension. I kept returning, again & again & each time I returned I felt as though I was finding the real me.

Over the years, the most profound change has been in my relationship with myself & my emotional wellbeing.

My yoga and meditation practice supported me through some very difficult periods in my life, including PND and, later, perimenopausal depression.

Those experiences taught me something I couldn't have understood when I first stepped onto a yoga mat: what supports us at one stage of life isn't necessarily what we need at another.

What "got me" through my 20s & 30s is not what has got me through my 40s onwards.

My perspective changed, and I began to question:

What do I even want?
Am I happy?
Am I truly fulfilled?

These questions led me to look beyond simply managing how I felt and towards understanding how we actually create lasting change.

I became increasingly interested in the relationship between the mind, body & nervous system, and in what happens when we begin to practise a different way of thinking, feeling & responding until it starts to feel more familiar.

This is the thinking behind Becoming Familiar™.

It brings together what I have learned through more than two decades of yoga, meditation, breathwork, psychology & coaching & perhaps most importantly, through my own experience of changing & beginning again including moving across the world with my family & starting a new chapter at the age of 50.

My desire to share what I have gained over the last two decades - through coaching, meditation, breathwork & yoga has led me to this moment, & to the work & practices I now share with you.

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Psychology & Coaching

BSc Psychology

ICF Coach

Yoga

2003 Yoga TT

2018 Yoga TT

Advanced Yoga Psychology 300hr

Art & Science of Yoga Nidra

Meditation & Breathwork

Mantra Meditation Teacher

Multi style Meditation Teacher

Breathwork Master Certification

L1 Tantric Meditation Teacher

Sound Bath

Certified Sound-Bath Facilitator